You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.
When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.